I dunno, if you’re parking your old work truck with the wheels turned out, I’m not convinced it’s to look aggressive.
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Big one I’ve noticed is pics where the front wheels are turned like they’re halfway through turning the corner but are just parked in the driveway. If they parked it like that, they’re trying to hide alignment and other steering/suspension-related issues.
“It takes less than a minute to pee and wash up”? Nonsense. It takes longer than that to walk to the damned bathroom! If you’re stopping only every few hundred miles and only peeing that little bit, you have some serious hydration or kidney issues.
Gawd, you sound like my father. “Gotta make time!” The few long trips we did when I was a kid were miserable. Barely time to pee, eating the cheapest fast food in the car.
As an urban planner, I second your remarks.
4th: The narrative writes itself. The media are roughly as trusted as cancer and Elon Musk is controversial. Musk occasionally says things off the cuff, and the media occasionally doctors stuff to suit a narrative.
You’re correct. The 2.5 Duratech is the base of the Jag engines. When I redid the valve cover gaskets on my last X-Type, I could plainly see the Ford stampings on the camshafts. The manual transmission offered in the X-Types is Ford’s own MTX-75.
So I’m a big fan of the X-Types. I’m on my second 2003, both with the manual transmission, this one with the 3.0 instead of the 2.5. It’s really hard to argue with those Jag interiors, and they handle really really well. They’re also amazing in the snow with that full-time AWD.
Yeah, the one that until recently built the Focus and is getting a massive retooling. Or at one where they’re reshuffling people around because of excess capacity for products like Escape and EcoSport. Or at the one in Mexico that presently builds Fiesta and is going to be doing fuck-all as I understand it.
Could have used the plant that they had been using to build the Focus.
Man, what a great-looking car! Shame Ford hates America again.
Saw one of these in full camo and masking at a Home Depot in Metro Detroit this weekend.
About the time you do that, though, you’ll suddenly hear about how upside down question marks are really letters too and excluding them is racist against Spanish speakers and your next license plate will be 4L¿ ~*B.
It’s almost as though they make them in sequential order or something... Nah, that can’t be it. No way they’d make BVW 0065, then make BVW 0066 and BVW 0067 afterward!
Probably a run on Fiesta STs before they’re gone. I miss mine, even though it wasn’t a particularly well-made car.
I think you’re on to something with a hypothetical Ford product realignment. Fiesta, despite the footprint, was terrible with space utilization, as was Taurus. I had a Fiesta ST, and hubby had a Taurus-it’s hard to overstate the inefficient packaging and bloat in the bodywork these cars had. The Fiesta’s rear seat…
GM’s actions appear to have been more calculated than Ford’s. GM hasn’t canceled all their cars, or even announced their intention to do so. They culled some slower sellers while retaining the Spark, Malibu, and others.
This came up in some previous iteration of “truck vs. bridge.” My recollection is that there is the railroad above, which the state does not control and thus cannot force the railroad to fix, and that below is a main sewer trunk line that cannot be moved without redoing the entire system.
That’s rich, telling someone that’s effectively telling you to shove your opinion up your ass (but more politely) to shove their opinion up their ass.